Perfume has been around since the time of the ancient Egyptians, and the art and science of making it has been passed down and further developed over generations. For thousands of years, fragrances ...

Centuries ago, the French town of Grasse reeked of pungent odors from leather tanning. But now it's famous for quite the ...

From the moment I walked into the Jo Malone store in London in 2000, I was in heaven. So many fragrances, and they weren’t giving me a headache. No running a gauntlet of perfumed women and men, ever ...

Ambergris is a sweet-sounding name for a strange perfume product: a waxy whale intestinal excretion that is created because of the sperm whale’s inability to digest squid beaks. When whales eat things ...